"Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway."

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Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.109, Random House

Nick Harkaway

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“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
“There's definitely anger, the demand of more from the world, a demand for justice. There's no other way I can perform the vocals than the way you hear them. It's not just the words, it's what is being felt.”

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“If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.”
“SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.”
“It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.”
“I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.”
“Tomorrow will give us something to think about”
“In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.”

Source : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.247, F+W Media, Inc.

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